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EXCLUSIVE: Creed already broke ground for Amazon, with the latest installment in the MGM movie franchise, Creed III, racking up a $100M-plus global opening and setting a box office record for the tech giant. Now Creed could spawn an Amazon universe spanning both film and TV. There have been meetings with…

Michael B. Jordan not only stars in Creed III but also makes his directorial debut. During the Hollywood premiere at the Chinese Theatre, Jordan introduced the entire cast of the film and gave an emotional speech. “This journey over the last three years has been incredible. Never thought I could do…

Michael B. Jordan is opening up about how important it was for him to make Creed III more “honest to the sport of boxing” by incorporating elements of Mexican culture. Fans of the boxing franchise got a glimpse of Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez making an appearance in the trailer for the new film. The…

A new Creed spinoff titled Drago, from screenwriter Robert Lawton, is in development at MGM, we can confirm. When contacted by Deadline, the studio had no comment. Details as to the film’s plot are being kept under lock and key. But we hear that it will center on the Russian boxer of the same name…

Deadline has mentioned it was going to happen numerous times, but Michael B. Jordan has now committed to a step up to a new title: director. He’ll helm the third installment of Creed, per MGM, which has dated the film for Thanksgiving 2022. Jordan’s big moment — this is his directorial debut — was spoiled by his…

“As an actor you're waiting a lot to be called to set, to be ready to go,” says Michael B. Jordan of the latest shift his career has taken as Marvel’s Black Panther gets ready to open very wide on February 16. “When you're the director on the other side of the camera, they're coming to you for all the questions. There…

A fairly contrite Innovative Artists is hoping that saying sorry might be enough to calm the waters with Warner Bros after the studio took the agency to court yesterday over copyright infringement. "Innovative is sorry for the improper sharing of the screener movies and will seek to resolve this matter with Warner…

EXCLUSIVE: Just as studios are getting ready to send out screeners for this year’s Oscar hopefuls, Warner Bros Entertainment today hit talent agency Innovative Artists with a wallop of damages over the “blatantly illegal” online distribution of films like 2015’s Creed. “Beginning in late 2015, Innovative Artists set…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM Motion Picture Group president Jonathan Glickman has re-upped with the studio in a three-year deal that will take him through 2020 and keep him overseeing films and a new mandate to turn library properties into live stage productions. This was confirmed by MGM chairman/CEO Gary Barber, to whom he…

EXCLUSIVE: Though they will be busy as directors on back-to-back sequels of The Avengers, Captain America: Civil War helmers Joe and Anthony Russo have joined Michael B. Jordan as producers of The Thomas Crown Affair, the MGM remake of the 1968 Norman Jewison-directed remake that is being refashioned as a star vehicle…

Tony Burton, who starred as Apollo Creed’s trainer Duke in the Rocky franchise, has died. The Flint, Michigan, native died Thursday in California, his sister Loretta Kelley told Michigan news site MLive. He was 78. The cause of death is not known, but Kelly told MLive he had been in and out of the hospital the past…

BREAKING: MGM wants more of its Creed star Michael B. Jordan. The company has attached him to star in a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, the 1968 Norman Jewison-directed film that starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It’s early days, but what a step up for Jordan, who has grown up onscreen in The Wire and Friday N…